Mother's Day

You know sometimes, or A LOT of times, life doesn't pan out like we want or expect it to. That's what seemed to happen this Mother's Day. I dreamed of taking a picture with my cute dressed kids, and peacefully going to church together, and enjoying the day with no hiccups, no crying....... Ugh no, what world was I living in.... Must have been my dreams! 

Saturday morning the girls and I went to the Mother's Day Brunch at our church, which was amazing, and the food was delicious, and a sweet friend shared part of her testimony, which was so encouraging. It was over, and I noticed a lot of missed calls from Jason, turns out, Jaxon was riding the golf cart with Popsie, and he fell off, and the golf cart ran over his foot. He was in good spirits, just would not walk on it. I get there, and after a little bit decide to go get X-rays. Sweet boy, couldn't decide if he was happy or sad. 

Luckily, Praise God, nothing was broken. But, it is sore. So, he will NOT walk on it. He will stand. It doesn't even look that swollen today even, I think most of it is, he has never felt pain before like that, and something that we as adults could walk off, he is just scared to try. So, like I said not quite like my Mother's Day had planned out in my head! 

Sunday was good.  Didn't get a picture of me and kids until 10pm that night! Ha! Church was good with my family and lunch was good.  That afternoon, I did laundry, Jason did the dishes, and I snuck in a nap! In the afternoon, we went to Jason's parents, and walked on stilts, ate steaks, talked about wedding stuff (Jason's brother is getting married), and made it home about 8:30. 

After we got home, Jason and Kylee decided that maybe they should get me something for Mother's Day. So, they went to the only place open, Walmart! And brought home a new bike and a purple cup! 

And, I got my picture with the kiddos!!

State Track

Kylee went on a trip with my parents, and cousin Lexi to the State Track Meet in Austin!

These two crack me up. The whole way down there, and basically the entire trip now, Lexi has talked. Or so they tell us. She is never quiet. Kylee is nearly ALWAYS quiet!! So, it's a great friendship! 

But, Lexi kept telling Kylee, "this is the BEST sleepover EVER!", and Kylee would say "it's NOT a sleepover!"

They got to swim at the hotel, go to the Wall baseball game in Burnet, shop a little, and eat good food with Dad! Ha!

Kylee at the State Track Meet 5 YEARS ago (with Addi) She still looks the same; just a little darker! 

Ready for her to be home, so I can carry her to bed! 

Thankful for parents that enjoy taking their grandkids around! 

Sprinkler System

Putting in a sprinkler system is hard work, and I'm not the one doing it! 

Jason has spent hours figuring out the master plan. He has gone to All-Tex twice a day somedays, has talked to them for literally hours over the past month; four hours in one day! Just trying to soak in as much "free" information as possible on how to draw out where the sprinkler heads should go, what kind of head to put on it, how far each should spray as to leave no grass unwatered leaving a brown spot and to not spray any windows. 

So, after working on this plan a.l.l.d.a.y Monday he finished! Color Coordinated and everything!

Josh helped him today get started on the ditching, and laying the pipe. But, before all that the guys at All-tex recommended doing a pressure test to make sure it would work by the time it got all the way around the house. Sure enough it does! Yay for that!

They got part of the back yard done. Lots left to do. :)

The grass will have 6 zones all controlled in a green box. And a large controller in the garage. Once you turn it on, it will automatically switch to the next zone. It will take 6 hours to water the whole yard with 1/2 an inch. The plan is to turn it on at night, and let it run! 

The work will be worth it in the end, and I'm sure Jason is thankful for a good brother!

Game Night

Game Night seems to be the fun thing to do these days... Nothing is good on basic TV! :) 

Maggie's new favorite thing to do is get a game out of the closet and dump it out; I would not allow this, but she can keep herself entertained for a good 30 minutes on one game. Sigh... so I let her do it! And, then we have a very stubborn, drag out of having to "pick up the game before you get another one out". She cracks me up! 

First Swim of the Summer

The kids were begging me to swim today; starting at 9 this morning! It's like they knew it was going to be a great day for it with the weather nearly in the 100 degrees.  

Around 4, it was finally full enough, so Kylee drove us down to the tank in the golf cart. The water was a little cold coming fresh out of the ground, but they loved it. Maggie went under a couple times, and she does NOT know how to hold her breath, so she liked hanging out in the red boat. And the water isn't dirty; the bottom just needs to be re-painted! But, in all honestly, the kids wouldn't care if it was dirty!! Kylee tried her hand at the boogie board! Seeing that we have no yard, we might be over at the "pool" more often!

Summer is here!! 

Look Who's Driving Now!?

She asked Popsie if she could drive the golf cart around a few days ago, and he said yeah, not thinking really she would be able to do it!

It cracks me up! She has plenty of land to practice driving around on, and she's actually pretty good! She knows how to turn and then straighten it out! 

Her friends won't believe the things she tells them!! Ha!

Last Week

We flew kites at the house; Jaxon a kite flyin' fool!! He loves it, and his always goes the highest and stays up the longest! :)

And, we did a lot of manual labor "landscaping"! Hopefully we can get grass in the next couple weeks!